Hello! My name's Jeremy and I'm the new marketing lead over at Mythical City Games. We developed a game called Skytropolis - a vertical city builder that's playable in virtual reality or on traditional desktop monitors.

We just did an update featuring new gameplay, 3 new modules, and 5 new songs, so we wanted to celebrate with a sale!

Skytropolis is 30% on Steam until Wednesday, August 29th, 2018. If you enjoyed games like SimCity - or more specifically, SimTower - we hope you'll enjoy our title too!

I hear you! I get tired of hearing pitches too. Promise I'm only here for full disclosure and to answers questions (as per sub rules). Do write if you want to talk gameplay, but otherwise, I'll keep quiet. :)

I'm not buying it right now. If there's one thing Reddit hates, it's unauthorized sales/marketing (although it happens all the time) and I'm seeing some weird voting patterns here. When was the last time redditors upvoted a blatant sales pitch while down voting people who notice? I'm smelling a bit of manipulation here.

I'm not really one for calling out this kind of stuff, seeing as I have a business degree myself lol. But it has caught my eye here and frankly it's obnoxious.

Edit: wow, a lot of haters down voting here. Me and the guy are cool now. Y'all need to chill.

When was the last time redditors upvoted a blatant sales pitch while down voting people who notice? I'm smelling a bit of manipulation here.

There's a sale going on and they're being very upfront about who is communicating about it. This is also a subreddit specifically about buying games (at a discount). I'm not sure this falls under your definitions of unscrupulous marketing.

That's okay! Buy it if you think it's for you - including if you like your interaction with me.

Again, I get the your point about pitching, but it's seriously #9 in the side bar. If I don't disclose, I'm not being honest to this community. Folks DESERVE to know this is us trying to get the word out. We're excited about it! We want to share our stuff.

I definitely shared the Reddit link; that's on me. Not the downvoting, though.

My understanding has always been that advertising is "unauthorized" unless it goes through the admins. Not that it doesn't still happen all the time, but that's supposedly the rule.

For example, and this is a kinda funny one - over on /r/bigdickproblems, there was a guy who worked for some condom company in the UK who was helping guys get his product shipped to the US because it fit them better. Admins ended up totally banning him for Reddit forever because they considered it "advertising" and he wasn't paying them for it, even though he was doing a really good thing for the community.

I'd hate to see that happen to you guys, but I'm not really sure how it all works. Maybe that guy was just so aggressive that they finally did something about it, idk.

Your situation is a little different of course, but I do hate it when subs get overrun in ads that supposedly aren't ads. You see it in NSFW subs a lot, where girls will push their "wish list" or advertise premium snap chats. Man, I'm really bad with these examples 😂.